Magistrate Julio Olivo demanded that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) release the results of the departments already counted due to the early announcements of Nuevas Ideas and PCN that attribute votes to themselves.
Olivo demanded to disclose the totalization and progress in the vote count by department, while the country’s electoral governing body reported that the scrutiny of eight departments ended without showing results, although the Nuevas Ideas (NI) and National Concertación (PCN) parties claimed responsibility. seats for the new legislature.
In a note to the TSE, the magistrate demanded “to make known to the population the results of the totalization of votes by department” including whole, preferred and crossed votes, such as the number of legislative seats that each political party achieved on Sunday, February 4. .
The magistrate warned of possible negative consequences in the final scrutiny of the departments of San Salvador and La Libertad due to overcrowding problems at the José Adolfo Pineda Gym, where the cyan color of Nuevas Ideas has taken over the tables and threatens even the integrity of the security guards. opposition parties.
The TSE has been unable to make official figures, meanwhile, the ruling Nuevas Ideas gains 18 deputies and its legislative ally, the PCN, two.
Comply with the Final Scrutiny Instructions
Furthermore, the owner magistrate Olivedemanded that the TSE staff at the vote counting tables “faithfully comply with the Final Scrutiny Instructions.”
«These instructions require extracting the signature register from the electoral package and counting the number of signatures and voter fingerprints. “This way we can verify the number of people who voted in each JRV,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.